As the "Sweet Defense Across Ten Thousand Li" caravan from Qingniu Medical Hall had just passed Tongguan, it was already as chaotic as a treasure chest knocked over by Huwa. Huwa had modified the carriage into an acrobatic "Epidemic Prevention Colossus," whose leading bronze sculpture of a Sky Blue ox could blow bubbles containing the mnemonic chants of the Essential Prescriptions Worth a Thousand Gold, while its swinging tail shot off garlic-scented fireworks. The Protagonist clutched the route map from The Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art and jumped up and down in exasperation: "Huwa! You carved the quarantine station coordinates into sweet bean ciphertext? Are we traveling or going on a treasure hunt?"
"Ciphertext sweet beans work like a charm the more you eat them!" Huwa stuffed a bursting epidemic-prevention candy into his mouth, and the spraying syrup miraculously formed a 3D animation that read "Spit phlegm into the spittoon." Before he could finish speaking, a yak caravan belonging to an apprentice from Tibet suddenly went on strike, surrounding wild flowers by the roadside and mooing. It turned out Huwa had secretly replaced the yaks' bells with "snack summoners," which dropped mint-flavored preventive herbs with a single shake.
At the scene of another sweet-defense blunder, Huwa upgraded his "garlic steamed buns" into "smart navigators." Not only could the buns point the way, but they also used Xiaotao's secret garlic-scented sauce to trace route maps on the …
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